Catalogue Entry: MINT00754

Submits his design for a medal [to commemorate the proclamation of Queen Anne's Bounty, a series of measures to relieve impoverished clergy]. Suggests that in future he be given authority to approve medal designs himself, to save the Treasury time

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/288, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Printed in NC, 4: 429; several designs by Newton are extant in BL Additional Ms. 18757.

[1] Mint Office 24 Nov. 1704

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